Sunday, 15 January 2017

Beeps and bleeps - playing Speccy music in python

While I was messing about with converting old UDG graphics to PNG files, I figured one of the other things I was curious to recreate was the beepy music from the ZX Spectrum.  BASIC code loaded with BEEP commands created that "I wonder what does that sound like?" curiosity that made me wonder just how easily I could use python to listen to the classic Sinclair hits of the 80's... To export or just listen? I tried two methods.  One was to make use of python's wave module.  This is a module that allows you to work with audio files....

Saturday, 14 January 2017

Retro bytes to PNG pixels with Python

After a long break from doing any retro game recreation in Python, I decided that since I had a few old personal game listings laying around from my ZX Speccy days that the idea of converting these to python could be fun at some later date. However one thing the ZX Spectrum had that we didn't see on the ZX81 (with its lack of any real graphics capability) was user defined graphics, or UDG's as they were termed...